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Takuma Zushi just wanted to be left alone. He sleeps in class and skips club. While going home, he sees a girl walking into the woods and decides to follow her. There he witnesses a fight between two sword masters with the prize being the ownership of the "Kandachime", a sword that can take human form. That girl, Otowa Hagane was about to lose when he naively steps into the fight...

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If you take Isuca cut down most of it's ecchi and replace the characters with improved ones, you'll get Kandachime. If you found those two parts unsatisfying in Isuca, you might as well give Kandachime a try.

Yuuto Amakawa has had a tough life. Seven years ago, both of his parents were tragically killed in a car accident, leaving him without a single living relative. His friend Rinko Kuzaki has taken care of him every since. Yuuto's sixteenth birthday has arrived, but instead of a birthday gift of a normal life he meets Himari, a catgirl samurai who swears to protect him. Within weeks Yuuto's life is thrown into chaos as his family's dark past comes to light. With demons appearing around him, Rinko and Himari fighting for his attention and a sinister plot beginning to surface, can Yuuto live the normal, safe life he wants so badly?

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Those series are awfully similar. Both revolve around some normal guy who suddenly finds himself involved with a number of exorcist girls and some youkai (namely a female cat one). Both series go too far with ecchi, but Omamori Himari is the one more guilty of that, On the other hand the characters from Isuca are a considerable improvement over those from Omamori Himari (that doesn't mean they're any good and one can't forget that the female lead from Isuca is a horrible tsundere).

Minato Sahashi is a rounin, a two-time loser who's failed his college placement exams. Just as he's contemplating giving up and heading home, though, a chance encounter changes his life forever! Enter Musubi, a girl who literally falls into Minato's life! Musubi is a Sekirei, a modified human caught up in a game in which only one of her kind can be left standing. In order to be victorious in this contest, though, she needs to find her Ashikabi (her fated partner)...and guess who fits the bill??

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The similarity is there, but I really don't want to go into details here. Both series give a similar vibe, but the story and characters are notably better in Sekirei. If you read one and you are desperately searching for a similar series, the other might prove itself to be just that.

If you liked Musubi from Sekirei or the nekomata from Isuca you'll probably going to like the other character as well.

Ryuuji Takasu has an eventful life: his classmates think he's a delinquent due to his 'killer' eyes; his crush Minori seems ever out of reach; and he’s just had an unfortunate encounter with 'palm-sized Taiga' – a feisty and dainty wench in his class. With different cleaning habits and tempers, the two clash like night and day; that is, except for the fact that Taiga and Ryuuji have crushes on the other's good friend! With school rumors abounding, the duo must now work together to play matchmaker for each other. Who will end up with their true love?

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If you'd rather stick to the part of Isuca's plot about the male lead cleaning house, preparing meals and taking care in general of that annoying tsundere loli, but without all that fanservice, harem and fantasy elements, then reading Toradora might be a good idea.

Kamisu Iori is at that age when he really wants a girl, but he's about to get more than he bargained for. Iori is taking a nap in the forest when a cute girl with cat ears and tail falls on him from the trees. She scurries away and he chases her through a mysterious door somewhere in the forest. Iori wakes up in a café where he learns that kittens actually take the form of a human with cat ears and tail just like Keena, the cute girl he was chasing. But when he accidentally breaks the door that he came through, Iori has to work at the café surrounded by “kittens” until it gets fixed and he can go home.

If you took a liking to the resident Nekomata in Isuca, you might want to give Koneko Pancake a try. It has lots of cat-girls, at least one of them is as affectionate towards the male lead as previously mentioned Nekomata towards her "master", you won't find any real tsunderes there and last but not least, the content is much more dere-dere driven than fanservice driven.

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